Rosalynd Southern

Thank goodness, we found this incredibly reliable and sturdy trustworthy basket. Now to make the obviously intelligent choice of putting every single last egg in it.

Always great to realise anew that (some of) the UK political class is prepared to sacrifice one of its very successful industries in this despicable way.

A work of art

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Reminder that you never have to hand it to Manchester MP Graham Stringer, who is a climate change denier, wants us to withdraw from the ECHR and spreads anti-trans hate

I tested and apparently no but I keep hearing about the new variants and can't help but wonder :/

Week 3 of not being able to breath properly and basically having to spend a day in bed after any mildly physically or mentally taxing task 🫠

“I’m not racist…I’m just frustrated...” 😩

Keir #Starmer, helping out racists yet again…

Compulsory 'voluntary work' is just unpaid Labour.

Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

Tomorrow’s free 18k word newsletter- The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel and the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA’s growth, leading to dark, dangerous circular financing reminiscent of Nortel.

Wheresyoured.at

I posted this yesterday, but it appears to be a reoccurring theme, so needs to be posted again

'Highly contentious' - you mis spelled 'lies'

donald trump is going through full brandonization at an alarming rate

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

At some point it basically becomes the opposite impartiality

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

No mention *anywhere* on the BBC front page of Reform’s latest policy. I guess the deep dives into the details will be along later…?

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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Man Claiming to Be Charlie Kirk's 'Martyr' Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Up Gay Bar in Slain Activist's Name Treven Michael Gokey was arrested in Arizona on a terroristic threat charge

When you baselessly call LGBTQ people terrorists who murdered Charlie kirk, this is the result.

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The University of Oxford Bluesky account announcing they will provide all staff and students with free access to ChatGPT. The post has 19 likes, 236 comments and 256 reposts (most of them quote posts dunking on it)

First good ratio I've seen on academic Bluesky lol

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Three Russian warplanes that violated Estonian airspace have been intercepted by Nato, the military alliance has said

Yeah I'm sorry these costs don't make sense if you include Oracle. They project to be making $114bn in AI compute in FY2029 (that's June 1 2028 through May 31 2029), which would mean that OpenAI spends way, way more than this in 2028/2029 - FY2030 for Oracle is $144bn in AI revenue! C'mon! C'MON!

Just so embarrassing. Everyone involved in this decision should be ashamed